Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

Author: Jeff Kalter When it comes to building a winning B2B sales strategy, forget about business as usual. To help you power up your reps’ efficiency, boost the bottom line and deliver a customer experience that lasts long after the initial sale, here are a few ideas for leveraging data as part of your B2B sales strategy. Start Small.

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Data B2B Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 240

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

The email inboxes of B2B executives are already filled with so much marketing clutter. Let’s take a look at what exactly B2B customer profiles are, how to create them, and how they can make or break your marketing campaign. In a nutshell: Customer profiles give your marketing team a steadfast starting point to the buyer cycle.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel 162

Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2018

But can B2B marketers use YouTube to the same effect? Today’s blog post offers an in-depth guide to YouTube success for B2B marketers. Benefits of YouTube for B2B Marketing. Best Practices for Using YouTube for B2B. The good news is, there’s no shortage of ways to leverage video to create unique B2B content.

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B2B Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 217

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Brand storytelling is a staple of B2C content marketing, but it’s less common in the B2B world. Storytelling may seem more difficult to pull off in the B2B world, but it’s no less effective. After all, 50% of B2B buyers are more likely to make a purchase if they connect to a brand on an emotional level. Keep reading!

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Check out our tips for getting the most out of your next B2B data purchase. For a more in-depth look at selecting a data provider, check out the following blog posts: A Guide to B2B Data Sources. Try Before You Buy: B2B Data Sampling Strategies. How to Get More from Your B2B Data.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 21, 2013

As a Sales & Marketing Leader, you are hungry for high quality B2B leads. B2B Marketers have tested many forms of social advertising. Marketing leaders must challenge past assumptions of how to leverage social advertising opportunities. The best B2B option until now has been LinkedIn ads. Case Study.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

And for better or worse, this change is sure to have quite the impact on your B2B marketing strategy. How will Facebook’s new algorithm impact your B2B business? Since the emergence of social media, Facebook has never been the platform of choice for B2B marketers. One way of doing this is to create buyer personas. .

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B2B Strategy Buyer Persona Marketing 180

SendBuzz

MAY 1, 2023

– Jeffrey Gitomer Due to the rise of personalized email marketing practices, customized emails are a must-have approach even for business-to-business (B2B) buyers. What is B2B email personalization?

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SendBuzz

MAY 1, 2023

– Jeffrey Gitomer Due to the rise of personalized email marketing practices, customized emails are a must-have approach even for business-to-business (B2B) buyers. What is B2B email personalization?

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Email Marketing Account Based Marketing B2B Marketing 52

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

The email inboxes of B2B executives are already filled with so much marketing clutter. Let’s take a look at what exactly B2B customer profiles are, how to create them, and how they can make or break your marketing campaign. In a nutshell: Customer profiles give your marketing team a steadfast starting point to the buyer cycle.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel 100

MarketJoy

AUGUST 20, 2020

Lead generation is one of, if not, the most significant aspects of the B2B marketing process and the sales operations. Content is a persistent challenge for B2B lead generation systems. Therefore, it is crucial to include an appealing CTA along with your content, such as blog posts, paid advertising, newsletters, and landing pages.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2B 105

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

It goes without saying that B2B consumers look for new products in order to make their lives a bit easier. And marketers need to understand pain points so that they can effectively advertise and create content around their solution in a way that will appeal to and entice potential customers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 17, 2020

Author: Kristen Powers You have seen the mantra in the news, via advertisements and throughout social media: “We are all in this together.". I’m a marketer myself, but let’s not kid ourselves: Now is not the time to build out your library of buyer personas or to launch a grandiose, top-of-funnel campaign. Where are those MQLs?” “Why

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B2B Buyer Persona Marketing Top of Funnel 177

Zoominfo

APRIL 9, 2019

But can B2B marketers use YouTube to the same effect? Today’s blog post offers an in-depth guide to YouTube success for B2B marketers. Benefits Of YouTube For B2B Marketing Before we jump into the guide, we want to provide you with a few benefits of using YouTube for marketing initiatives. Explore YouTube advertising.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

These predictions from B2B sales and marketing experts may impact decisions you make as 2019 comes to a close and 2020 looms. Programmatic advertising. Programmatic advertising essentially automates the bidding process using analytics data, as opposed to using traditional ad buying methods to purchase ad spots. Video marketing.

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Cost per Acquisition Advertising Advertising Google Analytics 176

Pointclear

MARCH 27, 2014

I was delighted to be invited as guest #5 on Paul Gillin and Allan Schoenberg’s FIR B2B podcast. The format of FIR B2B is brilliant. Half of all B2B emails are now opened on a mobile device, up from 46% last quarter (according to Yesmail in an article published in FierceCMO). More information and links in the blog.

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Social Media Media B2B Decision Maker 223

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

If you’re a regular reader of our B2B blog, you already know the drill. Direct Dials: The Secret to B2B Sales Success. For those who aren’t familiar, connect rate—or reach rate—is the number of calls it takes for a sales rep to connect with a potential buyer. B2B marketing often gets a bad rap. It’s that time again.

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B2B B2C Marketing Demand Generation Agencies 124

HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 23, 2017

This is the first of a series B2B Buyer Persona Research articles. I recently conducted an extensive research project of B2B Buyers t o understand how they perceive the salespeople they meet. What are the implications of nearly two-thirds of B2B salespeople being considered as average or poor? This Steve W.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer B2B 68

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

No B2B buyer wants to hear that from a vendor when they place an order the old-fashioned way, by phone. Such aggravations, among other factors, have helped spur the growth of B2B e-commerce. At Innovaxis Marketing, e-commerce for our B2B clients has risen from 5% to 15% or more of total sales. Here’s how.

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Outsourcing Services Channels B2B Incentives 156

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Have B2B sales reps gone the way of CD players, the Rolodex, and analog radio—replaced by technology that gets the job done faster and better? Some take this to mean that our prospects and clients don’t really need us anymore—that the automation of selling has made B2B sales reps irrelevant. needs us more than ever. Moreover, the U.S.

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B2B Hiring Social Media Pharmaceuticals 120

Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. Choosing KPIs for your team starts with analyzing campaigns where KPIs can fit within the buyer’s journey. In the earlier stages of the funnel , advertising, branding, and content are key, so choose KPIs that measure their reach.

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Paid Content Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cost per Acquisition 207

Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2019

B2B marketers have embraced many new strategies to cut through the influx of content in our increasingly digital landscape. As these statistics show, webinars have become a favorite tactic of many B2B marketers: Over 60% of marketers use webinars as part of their content marketing programs ( source ). Keep reading! Keep reading!

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Paid Content Webinar Metrics B2B Marketing 100

Pipeliner

AUGUST 17, 2018

Radio As a Marketing Tool For B2B Marketers and Social Listening. Paul Brenner, President of Dial Report, the only first-party data attribution and listener intelligence platform measuring the performance of broadcast radio shares his insights on how radio can prove to be a valuable marketing tool for B2B sales.

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B2B Tools Marketing Advertising 75

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Lead generation is the practice of capturing interest from potential buyers to purchase your product or service. Lead generation is the process of advertising, optimizing brand reach, engaging with nurture campaigns, and maximizing digital channels. Why is Lead Generation Important for SMBs?

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Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2018

In a 2010 blog post, ZoomInfo discussed the emergence of video as an effective vehicle for B2B marketing communications. Today video remains a hugely successful tactic in the B2B marketing world. In fact, nearly 76% of B2B marketing professionals report including video content in their overall digital strategies ( source ).

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Webinar Metrics Video Strategy Marketing 157

MarketJoy

AUGUST 4, 2022

The expensive ways of advertising a product on the television and then waiting for the phone to ring has disappeared in many ways. Apple spends around $1 billion per year on advertising. Just as consumers are adjusting to life post-pandemic, B2B companies are also figuring out how to stay in business, operate, and recover.

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Hiring Face-to-face B2B Scale 98

SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

People’s trust in advertising continuously decreases as they ask for innovation, more authenticity, and brand transparency than ever before. Today’s buyers don’t want to be sold to. The more you can personalize the experience for B2B buyers , the better your chances to convert them. Where to start? Educate, Not Interrupt.

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B2B Strategy Top of Funnel Marketing 51

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Especially in the B2B Realm?). Automated emails are great for showing possible buyers relevant and personalized information in a timely manner. What are the Benefits of Email Automation?

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing Campaigns 262

Nutshell

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But what should a seller do after securing a new buyer? That’s to say, current customers will often spend more with your business than new buyers. Retention Boosts Your Referral Rate Lastly, retained customers are more likely to tell their friends and family about your products and/or services than new buyers.

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Retention Outsourcing Services Buyer Customer 71

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

And it’s a crucial feature of any successful B2B business. . From poorly thought out plans to unidentified buyer personas, a small crack in the foundation can lead to the crumbling of the entire structure. And engagement only comes through an understanding of who your buyer really is, what they care about, and most importantly, why. .

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Buyer Persona Lead Rank 189

Lead411

AUGUST 31, 2021

Differences in Intent Data for B2B Sales. A buyer’s journey is usually a series of events over time, comparing solutions, doing research, and collecting information before reaching out to and making a decision. Differences in Intent Data for B2B Sales. Recent Posts. read more. « « Older Entries.

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Intent Data Intent Data B2B 52

Sales Evangelist

MARCH 20, 2023

In this episode, Donald Kelly sits down with Joe McNeill, the CRO at Influ2, to talk about the current landscape, the shortcomings of how sales are currently being done, and how to shift your focus so that you can connect with the right buyers for your product. Focus on how you can provide support Leaders: Ask for help.

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Buyer Account Face-to-face Survey 40

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

For instance, according to Gartner, B2B buyers spend only 17% of the total purchase journey with sales reps. And 44% of millennials prefer no sales rep interaction at all in a B2B setting. Like the buyer’s journey, which is more flywheel than a traditional funnel, the customer might touch each stage multiple times.

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Customer Social Media Top of Funnel Loyalty 130

SugarCRM

AUGUST 11, 2021

No wait, you do advertising? Buyers demand it. Personalized content has been a no-brainer in the B2C world for many years now, but what about B2B buyers? In today’s content-driven world, personalization is becoming more and more important for new, digitally savvy, fast-paced B2B buyers as well. Sender Name.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

B2B Sales Operations Are Changing for Good. The B2B Future Shopper report surveyed over 200 B2B professionals and found many businesses have shifted away from sales representatives in favor of eCommerce. A LeadMD survey of US B2B companies observed that over half of respondents are still in the market for purchases.

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Small Business Small Business Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 317

Zoominfo

JUNE 20, 2018

Think B2B data companies, corporate contact database services, sales prospecting tools, data maintenance services, and much more. Using industry terms—these tools provide you with the information you need to create buyer personas. Advertising. 3. Advertising. Affiliate Advertising. Display Advertising.

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Marketing Social Media Advertising Advertising 170

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Framework for Your B2B Marketing Plan (2022 Update). What Is a B2B Marketing Plan and Strategy? B2B marketing plan and strategy is about how you plan to raise brand awareness. What is a b2b marketing strategy? What Are the Main B2B Marketing Plan Channels? B2B Content marketing.

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